Whois verification rules coming this year

Whois verification rules coming this year Kevin Murphy , January 11, 2012, 21:02:35 (UTC), Domain Policy No more Donald Duck in the Whois? Registrars could be obliged to verify their customers’ identities when they sell domain names under new rules proposed for later this year, according to ICANN president Rod Beckstrom. He told National Telecommunications and Information Administration boss Larry Strickling today that the new provisions could make it into the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement by March. Beckstrom wrote: ICANN expects that the RAA will incorporate – for the first time – Registrar commitments to verify WHOIS data. ICANN is actively considering incentives for Registrars to adopt the anticipated amendments to the RAA prior to the rollout of the first TLD in 2013. The RAA is currently being renegotiated by ICANN and the registrar community, following govern...